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Definition of Transmogrification
1. Noun. The act of changing into a different form or appearance (especially a fantastic or grotesque one). "The transmogrification of the prince into a porcupine"
Definition of Transmogrification
1. n. The act of transmogrifying, or the state of being transmogrified; transformation.
Definition of Transmogrification
1. Noun. the act or process of being transformed into a different form ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Transmogrification
Literary usage of Transmogrification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Psychological Studies by Harvard Psychological Laboratory (1915)
"(This was selected, not as poetry, especially, but as a test of whether the
transmogrification of a didactic, homiletic poem would be successful. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Transmogrification, t. Transmutation, S. "To be mm-,—since my time and your worthy
father's time, it has undergone a great transmogrification. ..."
3. Fishing Gossip: Or, Stray Leaves from the Note-books of Several Anglers by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell (1866)
""An ingenious transmogrification of the old salmon-leister," I fancy I hear some
bilious censor exclaim: " Just such a transmogrification, sweet-tempered ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"... air," well fitted to " make passionate the sense of hearing," and melt the
soul of even Don Adriano de Armado. The transmogrification of " Coolin" into ..."
5. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"says Jones delighted to Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our
schoolfellow, an attorney's son, whom I recollected a snivelling little boy ..."
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